How to search for movie files on harddrive?

Saw today in Lions new layout under "This Computer" that my harddrive contains 147GB (out of 320 GB) of movies.
Is there any clever way to track those movie files.
The movie files are probably spread all over the computer. I have for instace made a great deal of Final Cut clips
that tend to be saved in several copies spread in different folders. Besides that, I probably have film and film clips in every imaginable file format that have been saved and forgotten through the years :-) (my iMac is from -07)
Any clever tips highly appreciated - Need more space!!
/Friss

The Finder can do this for you.
Just open a Finder window and hit Command-F
Then, in the search bar set the 'Kind' to 'Movie'.
Done. It'll find all the movie files on your disk which you can then organize as you see fit.

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